Hey Citizens of the World,
To experience India in the 1970s, you can now move to New York! 😉
These are some of New York’s next mayor’s plans:
– Free bus rides.
Zohran brother – Delhi, Karnataka, etc will soon be suing you for plagiarism.
– Freeze the rent on 20 lakh houses (many of which were/are already subsidised).
Looks like Zo copy-pasted from the Indian Rent Control Act 1948.
– NY’s social housing development agency will build more than 2lakh new homes.
Clearly uncle has been closely studying the ‘sterling success’ of DDA, MHADA, BDA, etc. of India and wants to replicate it there.
– Set up & run government grocery stores with low prices.
Indian Ration Shops & Kendriya Bhandars are celebrating that someone is copying them.
Most of these ideas are the some of the biggest failures of hard-socialist India of the 1960s, 1970s & early 1980s, which we in India are, thankfully, seeing in our rearview mirror as we drive away (too slowly for my liking) from that regressive toxic-socialist nonsense, into the real new world of progressive modern socio-economic politics.
That these idiotic ideas have appeal in New York – the global brand ambassador of capitalism – feels to me like it’s from a dystopian Netflix show set in an post-apocalypse world.
Maybe Zo should simply ask the thousands of Indians, who are currently living in & around New York (many of who are among the brightest, most ambitious, entrepreneurial people from India) why they moved there. And he would have gotten an answer why NOT to do this lunacy.
That said, if you ask them now, you may not get an immediate response, as most of them will be busy searching for a new city to move to. 😆
Hope some of them move back to Mumbai. Lower taxes than NY, some excellent new road & metro infrastructure, near-zero guns in the hands of people on the road, zero fentenyl-pumped druggies on our roads and our taxes aren’t going towards paying for illegal immigrants to stay in hotels.
Also, we have the world’s best pav-bhaji and vada pav – the two things from 1980s India that New York should have adopted, instead of this nonsense toxic-socialism… 🤷🏻♂️
End of Rant. 😏
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